Tetramorium binodis

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Tetramorium binodis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Tetramorium
Species: T. binodis
Binomial name
Tetramorium binodis
(Linnaeus, 1763)

This taxon is considered to be unidentifiable and its identity is uncertain.

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on type material

Jamaica (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • binodis. Formica binodis Linnaeus, 1763: 413 (q.) JAMAICA. Junior synonym of caespitum: Linnaeus, 1767: 963; Olivier, 1792: 496 (synonymy probably incorrect). Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Tetramorium: Bolton, 1995b: 405.

Description

References

  • Linnaeus, C. 1763. CXXI. Centuria insectorum quam praeside D. D. Car. von Linné proposuit Boas Johansson, Calmariensis (Upsaliae 1763. Junii 23). Pp. 384-415 in: Amoenitates academicae; seu dissertationes variae physicae, medicae, botanicae, antehac seor (page 413, queen described)
  • Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Pars 2. Editio duodecima, reformata. Holmiae [= Stockholm]: L. Salvii, pp. 533-1327. (page 963, Junior synonym of caespitum)
  • Olivier, A. G. 1792. Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle. Insectes. Tome 6. (pt. 2). Paris: Panckoucke, pp. 369-704. (page 496, Junior synonym of caespitum)